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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Native American priest calls this central area the absolute ________ of the land beneath the sky.
(a) Middle
(b) Center
(c) Balance
(d) Equality

2. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?
(a) The Mover
(b) The God
(c) The Victor
(d) The Hero

3. What does Campbell say are used to signify and to assist in the breaking of the attachment to one's parent?
(a) Gifts
(b) Dreams
(c) Rituals
(d) Arguments

4. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?
(a) The Power of Myth
(b) Myth and Dreams
(c) The Monomyth
(d) Myth and Society

5. What flows from this central area, as Campbell describes?
(a) Peace
(b) Beauty
(c) Truth
(d) Understanding

Short Answer Questions

1. Many contemporary religions are __________ manifestations of the same central figure system.

2. What joins at this central area as described in #28?

3. Who is the figure that returns with the Ten Commandments?

4. Whose temptation and transcendence does Campbell discuss in this section?

5. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?

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